Buckwheat with chicken - a recipe that can be entered in the column of "fast" dishes in your cookbook. This everyday food, which, however, can easily add variety to your everyday kitchen. In addition, buckwheat with chicken is not only a tasty and satisfying dish, but also useful. Everyone has long been aware of the amount of vitamins and trace elements found in buckwheat. And chicken is a dietary product filled with healthy proteins.
So, buckwheat with chicken, the recipe of which we will provide you, is prepared as follows:
400 grams of chicken - preferably breast, 2 large onions, salt and spices to taste, 500 grams of buckwheat, 1 carrot, sunflower oil for frying.
So, first we cook porridge, and at this moment we cut the meat into small cubes. Cut the onion finely, grate the carrots. Put everything in a pan, add water, add a little oil and simmer for about 15 minutes. After the meat is cooked, add buckwheat and continue to simmer another fifteen minutes. The dish is ready to eat!
By the way, buckwheat with chicken in a slow cooker turns out to be several times healthier and tastier, so if you have this machine, then use it instead of a frying pan. And the cooking method is similar. The only difference is that the process of stewing meat takes place exclusively on a steam basis. Due to this, an antioxidant crust does not form.
And now you have buckwheat with chicken - recipe number 2. In order to cook this dish, you need 2 bird legs, buckwheat in the amount of 1 cup, garlic to taste, but at least one clove, 2 cups of boiling water, herbs of your choice, butter. Salt and spices at your discretion. Alternatively, you can diversify the recipe with mushrooms and onions.
Before boiling buckwheat, it must be thoroughly washed in warm water. This is done as follows: pour part of buckwheat into a glass so that it is only half a glass, fill the empty space with water. Stir with a spoon, drain brown water. Do this at least three times - this will help get rid of the brown dust that forms on buckwheat.
Next, you need to pour buckwheat with boiling water, put on the fire and cook, stirring, until tender. Then you need to cut chicken into large pieces - in our case, it is a chicken leg. Add buckwheat and pepper, after cooking, add finely chopped greens to it. Squeeze a clove of garlic there. All this is thoroughly mixed, poured into a special container for baking in the oven. We put chicken hams on top , and pour butter, cut into small cubes , into the same place. We put it in the oven, having previously closed the lid or wrapped in foil. Bake for about an hour.
Some people like a dish like buckwheat with chicken liver. By the way, it is useful for those who have low hemoglobin levels in the blood. It activates the body's production of red bodies. So, you can use the recipes above, however, the liver will need to be prepared differently. It should be soaked in water - it is best to leave it in this state overnight. Then dip each slice in sour cream, and then roll in flour, only then send to the pan.
Buckwheat with chicken, the last recipe of which we placed, is the most unusual and difficult option. The highlight of this dish is the sauce. So, the ingredients for preparing this dish are as follows: chicken in the amount of 400 grams and the same amount of buckwheat, 1 large onion, 150 grams of sour cream, soy sauce, parsley, salt, a spoonful of sugar, 100 grams of milk, vegetable oil.
First, we start cooking small pieces of chicken. We lower it in a pan and fry on low heat. Be sure to periodically turn the dish over. Cook porridge as usual, slightly salted. While the main ingredients are cooked, we will prepare the sauce. We mix sour cream, soy sauce, add milk there, heat a little, chop the greens finely. Then add the onion, cut into rings, into the pan. Then pour water and sauce into the pan. Stew the dish for 10 minutes over low heat. At the end, add buckwheat porridge to this mixture, mix, simmer for another five minutes.
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